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title: She whose bright face hath frosted with death’s white Full four scor… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She whose bright face hath frosted with death’s white Full four score faces of war-breathing men Sent to that Ford successive! A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 26

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She whose bright face hath frosted with death’s white Full four score faces of war-breathing men Sent to that Ford successive!

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**What happens:** frost, breathe, send · **To what, where:** Firbolg, breathing men, Ford successive

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:13:28
# text = She whose bright face hath frosted with death’s white Full four score faces of war-breathing men Sent to that Ford successive!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	hath	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	frosted	frost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	white	white	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	amod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
20	Sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
23	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frost** | present · passive |  | Firbolg |  |  |  | with death's white; bright face *nsubj:pass*; Full four score faces of breathing men *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | war *compound* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** | participle |  | breathing men *not said here* |  | Ford successive  that |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to successive=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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